Gary McLarty
Gary McLarty (January 16, 1941 – October 11, 2014) was an American stunt performer and stunt coordinator for film and television. His abilities earned him the nickname "Whiz Kid" in Hollywood. McLarty performed stunts in over 150 films between 1966 and 2004, among them The Wild Bunch, Little Big Man, The Longest Yard, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Jurassic Park, Heat, and Collateral. He was in the helicopter, as a stunt coordinator, when actor Vic Morrow and two children died in an accident on a "Twilight Zone" movie set. In the subsequent trial, McLarty testified that, prior to the accident, he had warned director John Landis that the stunt was too dangerous. In 1991 McLarty shot and killed his roommate. McLarty was cleared of all charges when the Deputy District Attorney determined that it was a clear case of justifiable homicide. On the Friday before as part of a bizarre series of events another man had been fatally shot by Sheriff's deputies at McLarty's Lake View Terrace ranch. McLarty's house also caught on fire and burned down during the same incident. McLarty semi-retired from stunt work in 2004. The following year, he testified at the murder trial of actor Robert Blake, testifying that Blake offered him $10,000 to murder Blake's wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley; McLarty declined. Bakley was fatally shot in Blake's car outside a restaurant in May 2001. Blake was thought by most to be the actual murderer, but was acquitted in a 2005 criminal trial. McLarty died on October 11, 2014 when a pickup truck driven by fellow stuntman Bob Orrison making a U-turn was broadsided by a Jeep Cherokee in Rancho Cordova, California, USA. Both stuntmen were killed instantly. The two persons in the Jeep Cherokee were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
The Blues Brothers
(Stunt Coordinator)
Crazy Mama
(Stunts)
Animal House
(Stunt Coordinator)
Animal House
(Second Unit Director)
Beverly Hills Cop II
(Stunt Coordinator)
Clueless
(Stunts)
Beverly Hills Cop
(Stunt Coordinator)
Hook
(Stunts)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
(Stunts)
The Entity
(Stunts)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
(Stunts)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
(Stunts)
Police Academy
(Stunts)
Modern Girls
(Stunts)
Commando
(Stunts)
Hooper
(Stunts)
A Breed Apart
(Stunt Coordinator)
Showgirls
(Stunts)
Patriot Games
(Stunts)
The Wild Bunch
(Stunts)
From Dusk Till Dawn
(Stunts)
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
(Stunts)
Roots of Evil
(Stunt Driver)
Heat
(Stunts)
Ice Station Zebra
(Stunts)
Policewomen
(Stunts)
Stone Cold
(Stunts)
Lethal Weapon 2
(Stunts)
A Low Down Dirty Shame
(Stunts)
Chasers
(Stunts)
Out of Bounds
(Stunts)
Over the Top
(Stunt Coordinator)
Little Big Man
(Stunts)
Blade Runner
(Stunts)
The Longest Yard
(Stunts)
Bandolero!
(Stunts)
The Way West
(Stunts)
Beau Geste
(Stunts)
The Terminator
(Stunts)
Collateral
(Stunt Driver)
The Hollywood Mom's Mystery
(Stunt Driver)
Hellfighters
(Stunts)
Run, Angel, Run!
(Stunts)
The Bridge at Remagen
(Stunts)
The Undefeated
(Stunts)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
(Stunts)
C.C. and Company
(Stunts)
The Losers
(Stunt Driver)
Chrome and Hot Leather
(Stunts)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(Stunts)
The Stone Killer
(Stunts)
McQ
(Stunt Driver)
The Dion Brothers
(Stunts)
The Front Page
(Stunts)
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
(Stunts)
A Boy and His Dog
(Stunts)
Flash and the Firecat
(Stunts)
Mitchell
(Stunts)
Rooster Cogburn
(Stunts)
The Return of a Man Called Horse
(Stunts)
Vigilante Force
(Stunts)
Scarface
(Stunts)
Convoy
(Stunts)
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
(Stunts)
The Great Smokey Roadblock
(Stunts)
1941
(Stunts)
When Time Ran Out...
(Stunts)
Gridlock
(Stunts)
S.O.B.
(Stunts)
Coast to Coast
(Stunt Coordinator)
Yes, Giorgio
(Stunts)
Blue Thunder
(Stunts)
The Man with Two Brains
(Stunts)
Stroker Ace
(Stunts)
The Man Who Loved Women
(Stunts)
The Vals
(Stunts)
Into the Night
(Stunts)
Moving Violations
(Stunts)
Warning Sign
(Stunts)
F/X
(Stunts)
To Live and Die in L.A.
(Stunts)
Never Too Young to Die
(Stunts)
Big Trouble in Little China
(Stunts)
Eye of the Tiger
(Stunts)
Wisdom
(Stunts)
Winners Take All
(Stunts)
Nightforce
(Stunts)
Triplecross
(Stunt Coordinator)
Bluffing It
(Stunt Coordinator)
Rolling Vengeance
(Stunt Coordinator)
Code Name: Zebra
(Stunts)
Rambo III
(Stunts)
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
(Stunts)
Road House
(Stunts)
The Last of the Finest
(Stunts)
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
(Stunts)
Tango & Cash
(Stunts)
Catchfire
(Stunts)
Miami Blues
(Stunts)
Another 48 Hrs.
(Stunts)
Ghost Dad
(Stunts)
Ghost
(Stunts)
Captain America
(Stunts)
Life Stinks
(Stunts)
976-EVIL II
(Stunts)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
(Stunts)
Nowhere to Run
(Stunts)
Extreme Justice
(Stunts)
Brain Donors
(Stunts)
Falling Down
(Stunts)
Warlock: The Armageddon
(Stunts)
Last Action Hero
(Stunts)
Father Hood
(Stunts)
Demolition Man
(Stunts)
Gettysburg
(Utility Stunts)
Shrunken Heads
(Stunts)
Josh and S.A.M.
(Stunts)
Full Eclipse
(Stunts)
Wyatt Earp
(Stunts)
The Puppet Masters
(Stunts)
Double Dragon
(Stunts)
Night of the Running Man
(Stunts)
Jade
(Stunts)
Waterworld
(Stunts)
Raven Hawk
(Stunts)
Executive Decision
(Stunts)
The Rich Man's Wife
(Stunts)
The Phantom
(Stunts)
The Sleepwalker Killing
(Stunts)
Batman & Robin
(Stunts)
Lethal Weapon 4
(Stunts)
Mr. Murder
(Stunts)
The Siege
(Stunts)
Enemy of the State
(Stunts)
Active Stealth
(Stunts)
Sonic Impact
(Stunts)
Hollywood Homicide
(Stunts)
Gone in Sixty Seconds
(Stunts)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
(Stunts)
Critical Mass
(Stunts)
Murder Without Conviction
(Stunt Driver)
Chisum
(Stunts)
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
(Stunts)
The Seventh Sign
(Stunts)
Maximum Overdrive
(Stunts)
Less Than Zero
(Stunts)
Jurassic Park
(Stunts)
Cobra
(Stunts)
Days of Thunder
(Stunt Coordinator)
The Sunchaser
(Stunts)
The War Wagon
(Stunts)